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The article presents new entropic continuity bounds for conditional expectations and conditional covariance matrices. These bounds are expressed in terms of the relative entropy between different coupling distributions. Our approach…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Pierre Del Moral

For the first time, a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation of the general form is considered, depending on time and two spatial variables, the potential and dispersion of which are specified by two arbitrary functions. This equation naturally…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2026-03-03 Andrei D. Polyanin

For a symmetric bridge coupled to infinite leads, in the presence of a dipole-coupled external ac-field with harmonic mixing, we solve the Schr\"odinger equation in the time-domain using open boundary conditions as well as in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Niklas Rohling , Frank Grossmann

We reassess the concept of transition at minimum work in classical stochastic finite-time thermodynamics, when the system dynamics is modelled by a diffusion process. We show that a well-posed formulation of the optimal control problem…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Julia Sanders

In this paper, we explore quantitative stability of multi-marginal Schr\"odinger bridges with respect to the marginal constraints. We focus on the case where the number of marginal constraints is large (i.e. ``many-marginals"). When this…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Rentian Yao , Young-Heon Kim , Geoffrey Schiebinger

In this paper we suggest a new approach for the multichannel Coulomb scattering problem. The Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the problem is reformulated in the form of a set of inhomogeneous equations with a finite-range driving term. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 M. V. Volkov , S. L. Yakovlev , E. A. Yarevsky , N. Elander

We consider an optimal switching problem where the terminal reward depends on the entire control trajectory. We show existence of an optimal control by applying a probabilistic technique based on the concept of Snell envelopes. We then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Magnus Perninge

We develop some new analytic bounds on transmission probabilities (and the related reflection probabilities and Bogoliubov coefficients) for generic one-dimensional scattering problems. To do so we rewrite the Schrodinger equation for some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Petarpa Boonserm , Matt Visser

Two rectangular models described by the one-dimensional Schroedinger equation with sharply localized potentials are suggested. The potentials have a multi-layer thin structure being composed from adjacent barriers and wells. Their peculiar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. V. Zolotaryuk

Transferring the state of a quantum system to a given distribution of populations is an important problem with applications to Quantum Chemistry and Atomic Physics. In this work we consider exact population transfers that minimize the L^2…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Symeon Grivopoulos , Bassam Bamieh

The linear Schr\"odinger equation with piecewise constant potential in one spatial dimension is a well-studied textbook problem. It is one of only a few solvable models in quantum mechanics and shares many qualitative features with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Natalie E Sheils , Bernard Deconinck

In this paper, we investigate a distributed optimal control problem for a convective viscous Cahn-Hilliard system with dynamic boundary conditions. Such systems govern phase separation processes between two phases taking place in an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

The solution of the path structured multimarginal Schr\"{o}dinger bridge problem (MSBP) is the most-likely measure-valued trajectory consistent with a sequence of observed probability measures or distributional snapshots. We leverage recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Georgiy A. Bondar , Robert Gifford , Linh Thi Xuan Phan , Abhishek Halder

We consider solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for a potential localised at the points of a Poisson process. We prove convergence of the phase-space distribution in the annealed Boltzmann-Grad limit to a semiclassical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Søren Mikkelsen

Given two boundary distributions, the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem seeks the ``most likely`` random evolution between them with respect to a reference process. It has revealed rich connections to recent machine learning methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Maosheng Yang

A general, system-independent formulation of the parabolic Schr\"odinger-Poisson equation is presented for a charged hard wall in the limit of complete screening by the ground state. It is solved numerically using iteration and…

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The central limit theorem has been found to apply to random vectors in complex Hilbert space. This amounts to sufficient reason to study the complex valued Gaussian, looking for relevance to quantum mechanics. Here we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 P. M. Grinwald

Control of continuous time dynamics with multiplicative noise is a classic topic in stochastic optimal control. This work addresses the problem of designing infinite horizon optimal controls with stability guarantees for \textit{a single…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Kaivalya Bakshi , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Piyush Grover

The cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with repulsive nonlinearity and an elliptic function potential models a quasi-one-dimensional repulsive dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a standing light wave. New families of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Bronski , L. D. Carr , B. Deconinck , J. N. Kutz , K. Promislow

In this paper, we study the exact boundary controllability of the linear fourth-order Schr\"odinger equation, with variable physical parameters and clamped boundary conditions on a bounded interval. The control acts on the first spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Kaïs Ammari , Hedi Bouzidi